New Song: Mariah Carey – ‘You’re Mine (Eternal)’

Produced by hitmaker Rodney ‘Darkchild’ Jerkins, the blazing ballad is the latest song to be lifted from the diva’s 14th studio album (which arrives on May 6th).

After a succession of false starts, is Mimi finally onto a winner? Find out below…

Yes, yes, and yes!

As the age-old adage goes, third time’s a charm. Indeed, after three try’s, the diva supreme has finally served up a single from the album befitting of her name, status, and iconic back-catalogue.

A clear cousin of ‘We Belong Together’ and ‘Don’t Forget About Us’ (from both a lyrical and production standpoint), the track excels principally because it isn’t a rushed rehash. Instead, it borrows shades of what made those tracks so stellar (see: piano led production, relatable lyrics, and emotive delivery) and garnishes them with a 2014 gloss.

Also, more than anything else we’ve heard from the project thus far, ‘Mine’ serves as the most radio-ready – boasting hooks aplenty.

After making a number of missteps that were “exceedingly hurtful” to the campaign, Mariah has taken a giant stride forward with this. Will it strut to the top of the charts, though? Time will tell. From our vantage point, it certainly deserves to.

Now what Mariah should focus on is to stop with the ridiculous gowns and being uncomfortable on stage and just let loose and SING without worrying about the way she looks or the staging or whatever. Obviously she doesn’t care what I think but more people would be drawn to her if she just let loose and stopped with the whole over-the-top mess she’s been serving in live performances lately!

Are your best albums, you career is legendary & thank you for the best music i’ve ever herd from a woman artist but im done. Beyonce is my home gurl from now on. I will however I will continue to purchase anything you put out including your new album. But I will not stan for a lipping, age-ing diva anymore. Its just not right….

Beyonce is the new QUEEN of my generation is its about time I started stanning for the QUEEN of MY generation.

Bye Mariah!

Ps. This song is cute tho but it will flop with or without payola. She needs to RE-INVENT herself.

umm stephy the song sounds great even sam likes it!! go sit in a corner somewhere! and tbh you never were a lamb to begin with people said the same thing about we belong together and dont forget about us and look where those singles went!

Mariah Carey is legendary but she needs to RE-INVENT herself. I hate having to force myself into liking her songs. Ugh… This songs does nothing for me. It does not scream single material but todays standerds of music is so low I guess Def Jam said yes.

I’m at odds, because while it is the kind of music Mariah Carey should be making at this stage in her career and given her early catalog… But I’m currently on a second listen and I’m not moved toward it.

It’s not bad, but its nothing spectacular either. And it certainly is no “We Belong Together” or “Don’t Forget About Us,” 2014. Ehhh.

she already worked with walter for this album. If you’re “lamb” you should know that already! and if you don’t like the song then you just don’t like it, no one’s pointing a gun to your head saying to LIKE IT! Why force yourself to like something? #pathetic you’re a hive member but you’re fellow hive members like the song as well. #shrugs and her voice sounds great(healthy) it would’nt be a mariah carey song without her “whistles” that’s her trademark but she sang in full voice also.

Mediocre at best to be honest. #Beautiful was much better in my opinion. However, unlike a silly child on here, I won’t go onto some random rant about who I obsess or don’t obsess over. No one cares sweetheart.

Finally!!! I’ve been a loyal lambly member since day one! And if I’m gonna keep it 100 I was bit concerned with Mariah’s single choices recently. It looks like Mariah and Jermaine finally got it right. Again! It’s certainly not a “We Belong Together” comeback single but what it does have is the potential to gain radio play and chart success. Smart move by Mariah and her team to release this song for the lovers right before Valentines day too. I say she enters with a top 40 debut at least!

Mariah Carey’s music is getting worse & worse. Its the honest truth. Also, her smooth sultry tone is now a training whispery mess.

She needs to gain warmth & heavy-ness back into her tone. I mean how can the same artist do mediocore FLASE lead singles/songs like “Beautiful” & “Triumphant” & “You’re Mine” but has songs in her catalogue that weren’t even singles SLAY all her single releases in the past 7 years like this song…

It’s the same type of songs she’s been doing since 2005, in all honestly, i prefer ‘Beautiful’ even if i dislike that Prince wannabe, it will probably do well on the charts, the United States loves R&B, if only Indie/Alternative/Baroque Pop music could be loved here too, most Americans are basic listeners.

What is it that fem gays have against slow music? U think mariah gives a f*** about what’s on too of the charts right now? Y’all sound so ignorant. If it isn’t something danceable that u silly MEN can do choreo to u don’t like it… Shut the hell up miserable souls

I must say I like the live and the remix this is not what i thought it would be Mariah what the hell are u doing this is not it there was only one other time in her career that i felt like this it was the rainbow cd the only cd that i thow in the trast mariah come on I beleive my ears u are now proving the hater right if this is a hit the world is about to end it lets me know how bad music has really gotten……..but i will always love and support u………..

Love the song not here for the remix (not a fan of auto tune). For those saying it sounds dated, well, you all do know that Mariah Carey has a signature sound, right? No one sounds like her, makes a song like her and when people do they automatically get compared to her. This is a good song. Is it epic? no, but why look for epic when you can just enjoy good quality music. People, I think you all expect too much from music artist. Put more energy into your own passions. AND
I can’t at the flip flop in here. I mean have your opinion, but what makes you pressed is the repetitive negativity. Up on a post stomping around like somebody stole your bike. How you gonna say “don’t like this song at all….. p.s. this song is cute though” WTF?????????? your comments after that one are meaningless.

On a scale of 1-10 I give this song about an 8.5 leaning more towards a 9 I like the song kinda remind if her late 90’s hits just feel like I couldn’t make out the chorus cause it was a little low but I like it

I like it, good song and good vocals.
I´m among the few who prefer #beautiful though. “You´re mine” has better vocals, but beautiful is a better song, more innovative for her and more radio-friendly. Obviously, she´s not trying to top the hot 100 cos only pop songs top it now. She has said a million times her goal this era is to release a great body of work, and I´m sure the album will be great, so I´m more than ok.

@stephy
Only a question: how should Mariah work with new producers and not release R&B songs which sound dated in your opinion… but still should work with Walter A. 20 years later???? They made great music together, but do you really think anything produced by that man would be a hit in 2014?????????? If producers who were hot 5 years ago can´t get a hit anymore, what makes you think Walter could bring something great at this point? Nobody releases that music anymore. I agree to an extent Mariah should reinvent her sound a little bit more, like it kind of happened with #beautiful, but it stops there. Is anybody else from the 90s getting hits effortlessly in 2014 or something? NO nobody. Mariah is doing fine, you can´t expect her to be the same or as good as 20 years ago. She still makes great music and loves it with a passion, she clearly loves R&B the most.

Im not a Mariah Fan but after a few spin this song make me fell in love so hard the hook is crazy it keep on singing in my head seriously this song can be a major hit we never had a good love song for the past few years i meam Mariah Is the only one who can bring back the love song back that we fell in love from the beginning of her career congrats mariah and happy valentines day

Also the main singles chart has opened up a little more recently. It isn’t just one sound that tops the chart. Pop is playing a few more urban songs, & urban songs are doing better than they were at first. So this can do great..

I am the biggest lamb, but I am disappointed. This is a critical point in her career- even more so than after the Glitter disaster (at least the CD was good, even if the movie flopped). At this point (especially after the underperforming Memoirs), this new album should sound like a greatest hits CD- every song should be on fire. What gets me is that Mariah is finally getting recognized as a songwriter (although the fact that this didn’t happen before was partially her fault, with all her diva antics and eccentricities), and she comes out with the weakest songs of her career. Tommy and Walter A were right- they were trying to keep her from ruining her voice (why are singers over 60 still vocally slaying and Mariah can’t sing without lipping?), her legacy (an artist of her stature deserves better material), and her career. Mariah needs to reinvest herself- starting by using outside songwriters and begging Tommy to salvage her career. Time to wake up, lambs- Mariah needs to change everything

I love it. It’s a great song, classic Mariah, but modern enough and easily can fit into radio formats. If she continues to promote and gives great performances and dresses halway appropriately for the video it will go platinum like #Beautiful. Lambs – support, request, purchase and wake up and do your duties for our QUEEN!

beautiful was no flop…them other two singles, you’re right. those were flops. but whatever.

in which place is a ciara fan to call out somebody for SINGLE flops when Ciara flops for a longer time than she ever was succesfull? Ciara is flopping on the SINGLES and ALBUM front. So you better be quiet and appreciate the legends

Mariah’s team needs to follow MJB’s. She’s cementing her legacy at this point. She isn’t prancing around half naked singing generic, cheesy pop tunes. She just performed for the POTUS and the president of France, performed at the Nobel Peace Concert and sold 500k copies of her Christmas album past her prime. I feel like people don’t honor or respect Mariah’s legacy like they should and it’s her fault. She shouldn’t be trying to compete with the young girls anymore. F*** them.

It def is hte cousin of WBT/DFU, BUT hey, if it aint broke, dont fix it…I LIKE IT, A LOT (that trey mix tho-MESS) he is a mess, she should have gotten with Drake, or anyone but him….this is nice tho!!!

Overall I don’t like it but maybe it will grow on me. I don’t like the way she sings the chorus, too breathy imo. Also the lyrics are very ‘typical love song’ type. Don’t see how this can be compared to ‘We Belong Together’ which had better lyrics, vocals, and melody.

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Under her old management regime, the songbird surprised many last year when revealing she’d be focussing on singles instead of albums – despite the latter being something she prided herself on. Especially as a songwriter.